Feb 10, 2015 Why do you feel Kendrick had to do this more subtly as you put it? Like you said it would take more creativity etc. but with regards to the topic at hand there are definitely merits to just being blunt about it and I feel that works well. His lines about being a proud monkey etc. are very frank and catch your attention. It makes everyone sit up and take notice on what I guess many people feel with Ferguson, Garner etc, the rage and anger.. Edit: beaten by Jet
Feb 10, 2015 I guess it's a matter of the bluntness not appealing to me. Because it's not like Kendrick is any less skilled on this song than usual. His delivery is great, the energy is fantastic, the ides are there -- it's just the execution I'm not vibing with yet.
Feb 10, 2015 Bro.. what don't you understand? If this is the single, with intentions of being on the radio and having a deep and blunt message like it has, don't you think being straightforward is the way to go?? People turn up to Swimming Pools without even realizing it's a song about how alcohol is "bad" and how he would drink to fit in. They don't listen hard enough. Same deal with this song. You don't want people to listen to this and think "oh f---in white people, this song got me looking at white people sideways all day" Sometimes you want the message to be simple and easily understood, especially on a radio single about black hypocrisy. You saw how he got blown up on Twitter for saying this exact message. Yet when it's in song form, people s--- his d-ck. He knows what he is doing. You can't lose the message by being too bad a---. Sometimes being simple and blunt IS the best execution. by the way, it's a f---ing radio single.
Feb 10, 2015 Man a Pulitzer Price Novelist did an annotation on genius. http://www.complex.com/music/2015/0...tates-kendrick-lamar-blacker-the-berry-lyrics "The lyrics read, "So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street?/When g--- banging make me k--- a n----- blacker than me/Hypocrite!" You can read the whole annotation in here but an excerpt is below: In this final couplet, Kendrick Lamar employs a rhetorical move akin to—and in its way even more devastating than—Common’s move in the last line of “I Used to Love H.E.R.”: snapping an entire lyric into place with a surprise revelation of something hitherto left unspoken. In “H.E.R.”, Common reveals the identity of the song’s “her”—hip hop itself—forcing the listener to re-evaluate the entire meaning and intent of the song. Here, Kendrick Lamar reveals the nature of the enigmatic hypocrisy that the speaker has previously confessed to three times in the song without elaborating: that he grieved over the murder of Trayvon Martin when he himself has been responsible for the death of a young black man. Common’s “her” is not a woman but hip hop itself; Lamar’s “I” is not (or not only) Kendrick Lamar but his community as a whole."
Feb 10, 2015 Narsh, you're my dude but really? Lol so we can just determine when lyrics matter or don't matter now? Can I claim the lyrics didn't matter for a majority of Relapse so it's great?
Feb 10, 2015 That's no where near the same thing Lyrics matter more for an album like relapse than Yeezus. Just like it could be argued that actual content matters less for an album like relapse when compared to gkmc Every album has a unique setting of things it's trying to accomplish and we judge how well it succeeded in doing that. On top of what an album tries to accomplish, theres also what we think it should've done or what it's missing. Like in relapses case, you can make a strong argument that content was missing (and you can counter it by saying content wasn't the focus). But for Yeezus you cant really claim that lyrics were missing because it wasn't the focus, AND not having incredible lyrics didn't hurt the album overall. For relapse, not having good content hurt a lot of the songs Explanations getting a bit convoluted cuz I'm high and on my phone, but yeah: different albums try to accomplish different things, and they should be judged accordingly
Feb 10, 2015 Mmmmm bluntsssss Yah I was bumpin this today in the ride and an officer walked by my car and it was right at the part where Kendrick says Im African American Im black as the moon...The officer just kept walkin into the El Polo Loco while I bumped this record loud as f--- in the parking lot ...the law cant touch us hahaha
Feb 10, 2015 Never heard anything like it before, been on repeat since release. With 'i' and now this, Kendrick has given us hot & cold, he went completely left field; wasn't expecting it to be so.. RAW. The writing was executed to perfection too, trying to be overly subliminal would take away the intensity.
Feb 10, 2015 He's said countless times he doesn't listen to radio whilst in the process of making music, and it shows. Kendrick has so much scope in his catalogue now, with Drake you have love ballads & braggadocios raps; Kendrick has covered so much more ground it's profound.
Feb 10, 2015 They're pretty much incomparable. Drake makes music for the club and Kendrick makes music to progress hip-hop as a genre.
Feb 10, 2015 I targeted Drake, but actually just mean everyone relevant in Hip Hop; he has no real competition. Kendrick is the only 'full circle' rapper in the mainstream, others have at least one defect i.e lack of MC'ing ability or lack of relevancy; Kendrick ticks every box.
Feb 11, 2015 I literally cringe at how this song is going over peeps heads. Black people in particular. Not necessarily people here, but just in general..go read some comments under the youtube video or comments under any site that streams this song.. Lots of stupid people out there… s---'s scary. Kendrick is sparking the debate/conversation more than the news does…. and the news does nothing but do that...
